Collaborate Disseminate
Susan Landau published an excellent essay on the current justification for the government breaking end-to-end-encryption: child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE). She puts the debate into historical context, discusses the problem of CSAE, and explai… Continue reading Child Exploitation and the Crypto Wars
Andy Greenberg wrote a long article — an excerpt from his new book — on how law enforcement de-anonymized bitcoin transactions to take down a global child porn ring.
Within a few years of Bitcoin’s arrival, academic security researchers — and then companies like Chainalysis — began to tear gaping holes in the masks separating Bitcoin users’ addresses and their real-world identities. They could follow bitcoins on the blockchain as they moved from address to address until they reached one that could be tied to a known identity. In some cases, an investigator could learn someone’s Bitcoin addresses by transacting with them, the way an undercover narcotics agent might conduct a buy-and-bust. In other cases, they could trace a target’s coins to an account at a cryptocurrency exchange where financial regulations required users to prove their identity. A quick subpoena to the exchange from one of Chainalysis’ customers in law enforcement was then enough to strip away any illusion of Bitcoin’s anonymity…
Rolling Stone is reporting that the UK government has hired the M&C Saatchi advertising agency to launch an anti-encryption advertising campaign. Presumably they’ll lean heavily on the “think of the children!” rhetoric we’re… Continue reading UK Government to Launch PR Campaign Undermining End-to-End Encryption
The US Court of Appeals ruled that he couldn’t continue to be held for refusing to give up his passcodes. Continue reading Suspect who refused to decrypt hard drives released after four years
New legislation being introduced by Sen. Lindsay Graham ostensibly to prevent the spread of child porn and other child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) may have the effect of prohibiting the kinds of good security practices that prevent unauthorized acce… Continue reading Bill to Prevent Child Porn Could Kill Encryption
One of the perennial issues facing courts is the extent to which the government can compel an individual to decrypt the contents of a file, a computer or a server. Jumping into the fray, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, on Nov. 20, considered the case … Continue reading PA Supreme Court Rules Defendant Need Not Decrypt Drive
A law designed to protect minors from child pornography was used to prosecute a Maryland high school student for sexting During the 2016-17 school year, a high school student with the initial S.K. posted in a group chat for her cell phone a one-minute… Continue reading Court Says Minor Can Be Prosecuted for Sexting
Far from being a simple hacktivist filled with an impulse for social justice, a different picture emerges when his activity is collated together. Continue reading DDoS-Happy ‘Bitcoin Baron’ Sentenced to Almost 2 Years in Jail
A 28-year-old Ohio programmer is charged with creating the Fruitfly malware to spy on thousands of unsuspecting victims and produce child pornography.
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I think it was around 2009 when Microsoft offered to leverage PhotoDNA to help law enforcement to fight child porn. PhotoDNA is a clever technology which helps to fingerprint any picture and keep the fingerprint stable even if you modify the picture (crop, change colors, brightness etc.). The idea is to build a database of…
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